This article discusses the financial reforms in the Bulgarian public health care sector. Since
1998, when the Bulgarian parliament passed the Health Insurance Act, compulsory …

The public health care services in Bulgaria were deteriorating, especially during the decade
of transitional process. The method of health care finance was a major reason for the poor …

Health care reforms in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia are based on the implementation
of market-based instruments into the system, namely on privatization and health insurance …

This paper analyses the Slovak health insurance system and the policy challenges it faces. It
describes the structure of health coverage and health sector reforms being implemented by …

A large number of former communist countries are currently undergoing a process of
insurance led health sector change. Social health insurance is seen as a major source of …

The study examines the effect of health care reform in Bulgaria in 1999 on the equity of
health care financing. It explores the distribution of different types of health care financing by …

Since 2002, the Croatian social health insurance system has undergone substantial reforms,
initiated for the most part with the aim of addressing the perpetual financial deficits of the …

Health financing reform in Bulgaria has been characterised by lack of political consensus on
reform direction, economic shocks, and, since 1998, steps towards social insurance. As in …

Over the past two decades, Croatian social health insurance system has undergone a
number of reforms that were aimed at addressing the rising financial gap between the …

This paper reviews current issues in health care policy and reform in Croatia. It analyses the
microeconomic foundations of health care (characteristics of health as an essential good …